Surad ibn Abdullah al-Azdi

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A delegate from the Azd who embraced Islam and whose Islam was good. The Prophet appointed him over those of his people who had embraced Islam, and ordered him to fight those polytheists of the Yemeni tribes who lived near him ¹ ².

In the Sira of Ibn Hisham

He came with a delegation of the Azd to the Prophet, embraced Islam, and his Islam was good. See the coming of Surad ibn Abd Allah ¹. He then set out, at the Prophet's command, until he camped at Jurash. He besieged its people for nearly a month, then turned back from them. When he reached a mountain called Shakar, they thought he had been defeated and pursued him. He turned on them and killed them with great slaughter. See the expedition of Surad against Jurash ².

Surad ibn Abdullah's campaign against Jurash and the conversion of its people

Surad marched at the Prophet's order to Jurash, a walled town sheltering Yemeni tribes and Khath'am, besieged it for about a month and withdrew; when at the mountain of Shakar its people pursued him thinking him beaten, he turned and slaughtered them. Jurash had sent two men to the Prophet, who told them after the afternoon prayer that God's sacrificial camels were being slaughtered at Shakar at that moment, then prayed at their request that it be lifted; they found their people struck that very day and hour. The delegation of Jurash then came and embraced Islam, and the Prophet set a protected reserve around their village for the horse, the mount and the plough-ox.

Surad ibn Abdullah al-Azdi

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In the Sira of Ibn Hisham

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Surad ibn Abdullah's campaign against Jurash and the conversion of its people